Harvard Heart Letter articles from September 2008

Harvard Heart Letter archives from September 2008

Checking blood pressure: Do try this at home.
September 1, 2008... Checking blood pressure: Do try this at home Home monitoring makes sense if you have high blood pressure. Your blood pressure changes from hour to hour, sometimes even minute to minute. Standing up from a chair, watching an exciting...

Aches and pains - is your statin to blame?(Report)
September 1, 2008... Aches and pains * is your statin to blame? Muscle pain is the most common side effect of cholesterol-lowering statins. Peek inside the medicine cabinet of an American over age 50 and you're likely to spy a statin. This family of drugs...

Get the lead out.(Report)
September 1, 2008... Get the lead out Removing broken or infected pacemaker leads is a delicate art. Several million Americans rely on a pacemaker to keep their hearts beating at a steady clip or an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) to shock it...

Mediterranean diet sails well in the USA.
September 1, 2008... Mediterranean diet sails well in the USA A food pattern from the old country is good for the heart, waistline. Can a traditional diet developed over centuries in countries lapped by Homer's "wine-dark sea" benefit Americans whose...

Heart beat: Post-heart attack angina common, and commonly untreated.(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Heart beat Post*heart attack angina common, and commonly untreated After the hubbub of a heart attack has faded, one of the goals of treatment is preventing angina, the chest pain or tightness caused by one or more cholesterol-clogged...

Heart beat: Heart disease a major killer among people with HIV/AIDS.(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Heart beat Heart disease a major killer among people with HIV/AIDS When the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) began appearing in the early 1980s, getting the virus was a death sentence. People infected with HIV died of AIDS or a...

In brief.(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... In brief Rate or rhythm control for atrial fibrillation and heart failure? If you have atrial fibrillation, controlling how fast your heart beats is usually just as effective a treatment as trying to force it back into a steady rhythm....

Ask the doctor: What's the difference between blood sugar and hemoglobin A1c?(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Ask the doctor What's the difference between blood sugar and hemoglobin A1c? Q. In your article on blood sugar control, you kept talking about hemoglobin A1c. I measure my blood sugar all the time, but my meter doesn't have a setting...

Ask the doctor: What's the connection between statins and coenzyme Q10?(Brief article)
September 1, 2008... Ask the doctor What's the connection between statins and coenzyme Q10? Q. Why don't you ever tell your readers that everyone who takes a statin to lower cholesterol should be taking coenzyme Q10, too? A. Coenzyme Q10, sometimes...